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Both Lithuania's Baltic neighbors, Latvia and Estonia, were reported calm today. The official Tass news agency said the Soviet military and Estonian officials had reached agreement on the contentious issue of conscripting Estonian youths into military service...
Tass quoted a Soviet Army deputy chief of staff, Col. Gen. Grigory Krivosheyev, as saying an agreement was struck between Defense Minister Dmitri T. Yazov and Estonian Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar on military service for Estonian men. Tass said the accord will allow some Estonian draftees to serve in Estonia...
...rarefied levels of real political power, three women in particular have emerged who may set the pattern for others to follow: Marju Lauristin, the deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament; Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene; and Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, parliamentary president of East Germany until the recent union of the two Germanys. Between them, Lauristin and Prunskiene have managed to place the Baltic struggle for independence high on the world's political agenda...
...work is to put our ideas into legislation," she says, "and it is often more important than leading the debate." Aided by a natural, direct manner and an air of honesty that works well on television, she is responsible for communicating the government's programs and ideas to the Estonian people...
...without saying that the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia must be a Russian. Until last week, that is, when yet another unbreakable rule was broken in the Soviet Union. At the resplendently gilded Trinity-St. Sergius monastery in Zagorsk, ceremonial bells and chimes greeted the election of an Estonian of German stock, Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad, as the next Patriarch. It is the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution that the Russian Orthodox Church has chosen its leader free of manipulation by the atheistic regime...